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I’m an agnostic and *I* got offended by Gibson’s condescending remarks and misrepresentations about Palin’s faith.

Nice work Chucky!

Gringo

For nearly every event or situation, one can find a folk saying or cliché that applies. Here, it’s “If you have lemons, make lemonade.”
Great photoshop!

I echo jlibson’s comment that as an agnostic, I was offended by Gibson’s treatment of Palin’s faith. I could tell that Palin’s remarks about Iraq had the underlying message that she hoped that we were on God’s side, and that we pray in the hope that we find out what God wants. There is humility instead of the “God’s on our side” arrogance that Gibson and many others tried to project on Palin.

Zhombre

I suspect Sarah Palin may be Teddy Roosevelt reincarnated with a vagina. Call it karma. McCain has said TR is his most admired President. Palin shares TR’s toughness, his agressiveness and his love of the outdoors. I’ve no doubt Roosevelt would have loved growing up in Alaska, learning to hunt moose and wolf, being captain of the basketball team and called The Barracuda, and pursuing a zeal for reform and a penchant for busting the balls of senior politicians complacent in discharging their duties and safeguarding the public trust. (I’m sure Gibson would like to be H.L. Mencken but lacks the brains, wit and red corpuscles.)

Ymarsakar

I’m offended because I know propaganda and I know it when I see it.

You’d be surprised what you can do when you can slice apart people’s sentences and paragraphs to suit your purposes.

And I don’t trust his conscience to do it right.

Ymarsakar

It is as if the Vietcong interviewed an American service member, spliced the video apart with modern tech, and made him say pro-Vietcong and anti-American propaganda messages. Even though the American servicemember resisted giving his captors the answers they wanted, the grueling interrogation, sleep deprivation, and torture eventually caused the American to get caught.

That is the ethical dilemma scenario. And the reason why it is unethical and not the height of the art of propaganda is simple.

It does not attempt or succeed at convincing people with the truth. When propagandists must use lies to supplement for truth, it is because their skills at the art sucks and their cause is unjust.

For example, Book, who has to hide the history of their party under deceptions and lies? The Republicans or the Democrats? Who has a more just record on issues like slavery, equal rights, justice, and opportunity for all? The party that needs to hide its true history?

I was going to start my comment out with one explanation for the left’s vitriolic attacks on Gov. Pailin is that she does believe in God and makes no excuse for it. And that she states she sees God’s hand in the events of man. And the left can not stand that there might be some power above their own.
But that is too intellectual.
A man running for President of the United States believes he is the one the people have been waiting for .
A man nominated by a major political party to run for President of the United States voted to deny medical treatment to living, breathing infants who survived a botched abortion several times in his state legislature.
A man who sat in a “church” and absorbed sermons from a “Christian Preacher” crying “God Damn the United States” is considered by several polls to have the votes to be the President of the United States.
The handwriting is on the wall, and those who willing disregard it will lead us to disaster.
Yes, God is on our side. But, we have to act. He gives us free will. “Choice”, if you will.
Sorry if I made this string too serious. The shopped pik is great. And fun.
Al

Mike Devx

Blech. The comic is as bad as Gibson. Sarah Palin does not believe that God is on her side. I am sure that in her prayers is the constant hope that SHE is on God’s side. And that is exactly what she said in that videotaped address to her former Church’s members. It was a prayer of hope that our leaders are on God’s side in sending soldiers to Iraq.

The comic reinforces the essential distortion of Gibson’s question. Sarah Palin DEFINITELY does not believe, nor ever hope, that God is on her side. If she ever prays that there is alignment between herself and God, it is that she is following God’s will, that she be fortunate enough to be aligned with him.

I’m an agnostic, finding God to be so mysterious as to be unknowable, and even I can clearly see that about Sarah Palin. For the comic to put into Sarah Palin’s mouth the phrase “Yes I believe that God’s on my side”, and have *that* not be the point of the joke, is just plain unfair.

suek

>>I’m an agnostic, finding God to be so mysterious as to be unknowable>>

Then you’re not really agnostic…just humble in recognizing that He is incomprehensible to us. Anyone who says they “know” Him is fooling themselves. “Fear of God” is wisdom.

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